Autonomous system
AS16710 PBS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Public Broadcasting Service
media education infrastructure
The counter in the netname is spelled out as a word rather than written as a digit.
What it's used for
- A broadcaster's network. Four IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, nine thousand four hundred and seventy-two addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is three initials, one for each word of the holder's name.
- All four blocks are registered to the holder, and all four carry the same netname: those initials, the word for a network, and the number one written out in letters.
- The four blocks are pieces of a single parent range at three sizes, scattered rather than contiguous.
- Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Two observed neighbours carry the whole announcement.
Interesting
- A counter spelled as a word is unusual. Digits sort, group and increment; a word does none of those things, which means this label was written for a person to read rather than for a system to process.
- One netname across four blocks says the registry can group them and can tell you nothing about which is which. The distinctions live in a system that never reaches the registry.
- Nine thousand addresses through two upstreams, with nothing answering a reverse lookup, describes a network that distributes to member stations rather than one that serves the public directly. What the public sees lives somewhere else entirely.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 9.47K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16710- Registry name
- PBS
- Registrant
- Public Broadcasting Service
- Abuse contact
- entnet@pbs.org
- Registered
- 2000-06-01
- Last changed
- 2025-01-15
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16710
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 82% registered · 14 of 17 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS16710
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere